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While this version of Ouch will no longer be updated, it will stay here for reference. Show More Summary

We're making it easier for you to delve into Ouch
As well as the blog, we do a monthly internet radio programme. And now we're posting clips of the programme to a new channel we've got on Audioboo.
Here are three items taken from the...Show More Summary

No-one knows why two-year-old Lawrence lives with multiple disabilities.
To mark the inaugural Undiagnosed Children's Awareness Day on 13 April, mum Katherine Kowalski writes about her son's SWAN (syndrome without a name).
For most parents,...Show More Summary

listen to ‘Winter Paralympics:
If you like wheelchair rugby, you'll like sledge hockey’ on Audioboo
What is sledge hockey? And why should we be rooting for Team GB to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics?
"It's the disabled version of ice hockey," says GB sledge hockey goalie Rob Gaze. Show More Summary

Never heard of Sledge Hockey? Find out more about the Winter Paralympic sport on the show
This month: We discuss how benefit cuts could affect the economy, how campaigning on social media can be unhealthy as well as positive and howShow More Summary

The BBC has published the results of a survey on the nation's class. Its basis is that the old class system - lower, middle and upper - is no longer relevant.
Previously class was strictly determined by occupation, wealth and education,...Show More Summary

Tanni Grey-Thompson's tweets about a recent accessibility fail, inspired disabled cartoonist Hannah Ensor to create the above image.
On arriving home late and discovering the lift in her building was broken, the disabled Baroness had to crawl up ten flights of stairs to her London flat, dragging her chair up too. Show More Summary

As St. Patrick's Day approaches, Emma Tracey speaks to Joanne O'Riordan, a disabled 16 year-old who is a household name back in Emma's home country, Ireland.
I first saw Joanne on Irish television 16 years ago. She was just a baby and her parents did the talking but it knocked my teenage socks off. Show More Summary

Comedians with Disabilities Act
Disabled children should be "put down" to save money, went the unfortunate dark joke from a councillor in Cornwall.
Much reported at the end of February, we brought it it up in our monthly talk show and it sparked a lively discussion about the most awful things people have ever said to you about your disability. Show More Summary

Making invisible lives, visible
When Liz Crow is out and about, she adopts a strong public image. But when at home, she has to lie down, cave-in and totally relax. She calls this her "bed life".
"I go out there and try and be all energetic and busy and doing things", says Crow. Show More Summary

Hear the Comedians with Disabilities Act on the March show
Available monthly
This month: Chat ranges from Nazi anti-disability propaganda to benefit reform and the recent "disabled children should be put down" comments from a councillor. Show More Summary

Laura got alternative parenting ideas from a support network
Laura Miller lives in Glasgow with her husband and 13 month old Jonathan. As Mother's Day approaches, the wheelchair-using mum explains how she cares for her little boy who she cannot carry.
"I do most of my parenting sitting down," says Laura. Show More Summary

Emma tests a new prototype app that lets blind people find other blind people.
"We'd arranged to meet at a shopping mall but, as time went by, I began to wonder why my wife was so late," says Doug Wakefield, one half of a married blind...Show More Summary

"I'm fluent when I sing" says Matt
Twenty year-old music student Matt Bond has produced an EP, featuring himself and four fellow artists who all have a stammer. He doesn't like
using phones, so explains his project in an interview conducted...Show More Summary

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Radio 4 reporter Andrew Bomford visits a special school near Cardiff to find deaf children listening to music in a very physical way. Show More Summary

We love animal videos and, if the animals in those videos happen to have a bit of a disability, then we're drawn to them even more.
Here are some disabled creatures currently grabbing our attention.
A buoyancy-challenged goldfish gets around under water using a unique swimming aid. Show More Summary

Marion Cotillard with an orca in Rust and Bone
Ahead of Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony in LA, disabled film critic Scott
Jordan Harris looks back at the year's bumper crop of disability related films. In an essay originally broadcast...Show More Summary

"My body needs to get more stronger than not getting fat." That's Ruben's take on what he must do to reach his goal. Ruben is 12 and has Down's syndrome. He's been training hard for the chance to swim for Team GB, one of three stories...Show More Summary

Assisted dying is controversial the world over but there are a handful of countries which allow it. Liz Carr visits all five in a new documentary series for radio.
All countries do it differently depending on legal history. In Europe...Show More Summary

Oscar Pistorius
"I didn't expect that story to appear on the news, it shocked me, it could just as well have been Tanni Grey-Thompson flies to the moon," said a friend of mine on the phone last night.
She was, of course, referring to...Show More Summary